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The 44th annual Comic-Con International is underway in San Diego. The winners for the Will Eisner awards, considered the Oscars of the comics industry, will be announced today. Nominees for titles published in 2012 are truly exceptional.

Titles with the most nominations are:

Building storiesby Chris Ware with nominations for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.

This work, made of many small books, posters and cards, and encased in a box the size of a large board game, tells the story of the residents of an apartment building in Chicago. At times sad and at others forward-looking we peer into the lives of a single and lonely young woman, a couple, on the verge of a break-up and other inhabitants. This work has also been honored with spots on the top ten lists of the New York Times Book Review, Time Magazine, and was named Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year.

Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, nominated for Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Cover Artist.

Fatale is the story of a mysterious and beautiful woman who has been in hiding for 80 years. She seems ageless, perhaps immortal. In the present day, a reporter, Nicolas Lash, is pursuing her. In a parallel story line, a reporter in San Francisco is pursuing this same woman in the 1950s.

Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja, also nominated for Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Cover Artist.

In this on-going tale, Clint Barton, or Hawkeye as he’s known as part of the Avengers team, fights the dirtiest criminals in New York City along with his sidekick, Kate Bishop.

Find the full list of nominees (and winners, tonight) in all categories here.

What are some of your favorite comics and graphic novels? Geek out in the comments.